[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 Express available

[Nathan Evans]

Somebody should 'plain english' the new EULA for Solaris 11.

That way we can compare the licensing advantages of OpenIndiana.

On 16 November 2010 06:52, Gabriel de la Cruz <gabriel.delacruz at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ummm S11 can upgrade from Opensolaris... maybe OpenIndiana could upgrade
> from Solaris 11.. so the vendor lockup gets killed... This would be good
> and
> bad for Oracle, bad because people can free themselves from the heavy load
> of pricing whenever they want without the need of starting from the scratch
> (trap broken), and good because probably people would perceive less risk on
> adopting the expensive Solaris 11. I know about a few startups afraid of
> starting "delux" because if they need to grow their IT infrastructure
> before
> having a decent revenue, costs would increase too fast and risk
> increases...
> but if Openindiana would upgrade Solaris 11 they could pull back whenever
> they like without the need of rebuilding their systems... and go back again
> to Oracle whenever they are ready to pay  :-P
>
> There is already a value in being able to upgrade in one direction, why not
> both..
>
> Just some twisted thinking.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Thorsten Heit <thorsten.heit at vkb.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Olga,
> >
> > > what does this print on your Oracle Solaris 11 system:
> > > /bin/sh -c 'printf "%d\n" .sh.version'
> >
> > It prints "20100305"
> >
> >
> > Thorsten
> >
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